Charles Barkley said something intelligent

We have railed against the One-And-Done rule countless times. And throughout this tournament we have made our opinion of Sir Charles known.

But amazingly enough we are both in complete agreement that this 1 year removed from high school rule is killing both college and pro basketball. You have to hear what Barkley says about this.

Yes, we are agreeing with the "great blow job" dude. What has this world come to...

Nightmare

ESPN's worst case scenario for San Diego State -

"Feeling the weight of unprecedented expectations, Aztecs bomb in their opener and are stunned by 15th-seeded Northern Colorado. San Diego State remains winless in the NCAA tournament. Leonard goes pro and five seniors depart. Fisher decides he'd rather not rebuild at this stage of his career and retires. San Diego residents go back to the beach and resume total apathy regarding college basketball. BYU advances to the Final Four."

*cold sweat* Some of this is actually not a dream. Kawhi Leonard is as good as gone and our seniors do graduate. Would Fisher really stick around another 3 disappointing years to rebuild? BYU does have the talent to get to the Final Four.

Ok, we're gonna try to go back to sleep now.

Renardo Sidney is an idiot

So everyone has probably heard that before the Miss State/Kentucky game last week Wildcat students got a hold of Bulldog forward Sidney's phone number and left harassing messages. The gang at Rush The Court discovered that Sidney actually had his phone number for public consumption on his Facebook page prior to that. Who does that? Really?

That fat kid has issues. Which means he's perfect for the NBA.

Man we hate the NBA

So here's the story. St. John's uses Madison Square Garden for their home basketball games. This is usually the arena where the New York Knicks play. So security for St. John's games are usually the same guys who work Knicks games.

St. John's beats Duke (remember that?), which was momentous for the Red Storm. The kids are happy. They want to run on to the court to celebrate with their team. No biggie, right? Happens all the time in college hoops.

Well, the MSG security bozos have a rule to not allow fans to come on to the court before/during/after NBA games. And most dumb NBA fans know that so it never happens. Security was unprepared for this at the college level. So what do they do when the fans start pouring on to the court?

They start subduing kids by means of asphyxiation...

Stay classy, MSG security.

(HT: Rush The Court)

Kent Clark

Those whom are familiar with us know how much we loathe the NBA. Like really. Absolute mess of a sport with a bunch of me-first criminals. We really hope there is a lockout next year.

Anyways, imagine our surprise when we saw this site. It was like when Superman met Bizarro Superman for the first time. These folks are the exact opposite of us:

Ok. Time to join and send the hate comments.

%^*&%$@!

Sigh. We've been through this before:

The official March to Madness position of Article 10, Section 1(b)(i) of the 2005 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement is that of opposition.

The rule that basically forces high school kids to play college basketball for a minimum of 1 year before joining the NBA should be changed to 3 years. There is a lot of support for this out there but then comes this jackass who apparently feels that people should believe the sun rotates around the earth again:

"With the NBA's labor agreement about to expire, the players' union reportedly is going to ask the league to drop the age restriction. Good. It's time to stop this charade and for all said parties to quit faking it. The NBA and the NCAA need to agree that if a kid is going to college, he has to do more than sleep through two courses before cashing a check."

We. Couldn't. Disagree. More. This is precisely why this rule needs to be strengthened, not eliminated. He then goes on explaining how all these one-and-done players are "fake students" and are making a mockery out of the NCAA and the NBA. Well no shit dude, this is precisely why the rule needs to be strengthened. If you strengthened the rule you would not have kids "sleeping through two courses before cashing a check". The environment right now is producing what you do not like. To eliminate it would take a step back to the wild west days of Kwame Brown, Robert Swift and Jonathan Bender. We HATE the NBA so peace be unto you if that's what you want. However if you were to see it OUR way it would be a win-win situation:

1) Committed student-athletes for the NCAA
2) More polished and mature players for the NBA

Is it really this hard to understand this needs to be done?

The 2010 M2M College Hoops Preview: In Pictures

Michael: "My credit good enough to buy you out?"
Moe Greene: "Buy me out?"
Michael: "The hotel, the casino. The Corleone Family wants to buy you out."
Moe Greene: "The Corleone Family wants to buy me out? No, I buy you out, you don't buy me out."

After flirting with LeBron James it seems Michigan State has coach Tom Izzo back in East Lansing for now, and the Spartans are loaded. But will anything less than a National Championship be Izzo's swan song? Does anyone even care about Raymar Morgan?

I'm still here, motherfuckers...

Spartan coach Izzo declines NBA offer and stays at MSU for Mike Krzyzewski.

WASTErn indeed...

So long, John Wall

It was a treat watching you play. We wondered why you didn't exhibit your takeover play ability that you had as the season went on. But it didn't matter, you were still good. As long as you were in the game Kentucky had a chance. But then there was West Virginia. Who forced you to play the perimeter. And if there was one thing everyone said it was that you (they) could not play the perimeter under pressure. And they were right. But it doesn't matter, you were still fun to watch. Have fun in the NBA, dude.

Culture Clash

Although other blogs may be more tasteful in talking about the upcoming Cornell / Kentucky game we are not afraid to stoop to the lowest common denominator.

This game will feature lumbering slow White people destined to be doctors/lawyers/accountants versus fast agile Black people destined for the NBA! And you know what that means...


Kentucky FTW!

March to Madness. Not afraid to start flame wars and idiotic controversies since 2007.

One of the few times the NBA can be fun(ny)

Damn, she just got ate! Happy Friday.

Richard "Digger" Phelps is our new man-crush

Preach on, preach on!

Good Lord he is neon white.

One and done

Like our man crush Keith Olbermann would say, and now a special comment...

We want to officially go on record in saying that the NBA should adopt the NFL rule of players being 3 years removed from high school before being able to enter the pros. We have felt this for years as players such as Kobe Bryant went pro while we were left thinking "Could you imagine him at Duke?"

Then the NBA came up with this one year removed rule. This just pissed us off more. If you want to go pro, then GO! Don't waste our time and make a mockery of the collegiate system by enrolling, signing up for classes only to drop out when the semester is over. The term is Student-Athlete, not Possible-Millionaire-In-Waiting.

We were reading the Bible and John Gasaway made the following comment about Kentucky's super frosh John Wall:

I’m on the record as thinking one-and-done has got to go and, post-Wall, I still believe that. Wall should be in the NBA right now. (Duh.) To keep him out is unfair. But to love hoops as I do is to love what you’ve been seeing, however it came to be. Again, enjoy Wall while you can.

Yes, Wall is good but imagine if he remains at Kentucky longer? And when Kentucky loses (and they will) would that say Wall is NOT ready for the NBA? Should Michael Jordan have jumped ship and not played at UNC (or worse only play one year)? Was he THAT much better than the college competition?

Ok, we're done. < /soapbox>

John Wall for Heisman

We are starting to believe in the this mix between Kobe Bryant Dwayne Wade and Jason Kidd. That UConn / Kentucky game had an NBA type of environment feel to it.

Let us be clear, we do not mean NBA type of PLAY. That would have sucked.

Michael Douglas, Pat Riley, all the stars were out. Insane fans (in a good way), and once again a last minute heroic effort by the freshman that sealed the deal 64 to 61 for the Wildcats.

We are running out of superlatives here...

Reason 1,286,495 why college hoops is better than the NBA

Submitted without comment...

(HT: The Dagger)

This Bud's for you

We're currently watching the beatdown Syracuse is giving UNC and we just heard Dickie V. say the following:

That's traveling, man!
Even in the NBA that's traveling!


Dick Vitale has his moment of lucidity.

Oh yeah. Syracuse? This Is Sparta!!!! You get the other weekly award.

Practice, remixed

Stay and fight

Give him a fucking siren for this comment!

I hope more college guys take a look at Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, and Danny Green and decide that they, too, want to put off the NBA for a year and try for a national championship. I want to see more teams like that. I want to see more guys who decide they can wait for the NBA. I'm just hoping it starts a trend. I hope that Tyler Hansbrough makes it cool to stay in school.
- Matthew J. Darnell, The Dagger

Amen brother.

What the f....

They are treating the beginning of the Big East Tournament Championship like an NBA game. Sickening.